Jack Cashill began his June 5 WorldNetDaily column by gushing over yet another Capitol rioter:
“What’s somebody like that doing at a hearing about COVID?” Anthony Fauci asked a CNN host. As shall be seen, there is more to this question than meets the eye.
Fauci was referring to the mischievous January 6 veteran Brandon Fellows. Fellows was thrown out of the subcommittee hearing Monday for making faces behind Fauci while he talked.
I had the pleasure of meeting Fellows in D.C. during the Ashli Babbitt Freedom March on Memorial Day. We walked and talked together for a few blocks. He is a character.
As the marchers headed down Massachusetts Avenue toward the D.C. jail, with American flags and Trump flags flying, the neighbors, all white, felt free to shout the most vile epithets their limited imaginations could conjure.
Laughing, Fellows joked back that he had just been paroled to the district a week earlier and was pleased to be their new neighbor. His good nature only enraged his critics more. As I said to Fellows at the time, “This is your jury pool.”
A dozen members of that pool saw to it that Fellows went to prison. His crime was to enter the Capitol through an open door and put his feet up on the desk of U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., while smoking marijuana.
He hurt no one, broke nothing. Now just 30, Fellows had been incarcerated since July 2021 and remains on probation.
Needless to say, Cashill is misleading about Fellows’ actions and his sentence. As a less biased media outlet reported:
At trial, prosecutors showed Fellows entering the U.S. Capitol through a broken window and then proceeding to Sen. Jeff Merkley’s (D-OR) office, where he smoked marijuana. Fellows then joined rioters in the Crypt before heckling officers who didn’t have helmets on his way out of the building. Prosecutors said Fellows then posted extensively on social media, “glorifying the violence of his fellow rioters.”
Fellows was initially granted pretrial release but had his bond revoked after multiple violations, including calling the mother of his probation officer. His defiant behavior continued following his rearrest. Fellows fired multiple attorneys and ultimately chose to represent himself – including during a disastrous bond review hearing in which he appeared to admit to illegally attempting to get judges removed from cases in D.C. and New York. In addition to his conviction at trial, Fellows was also found in criminal contempt of court for repeated outbursts, including calling the proceeding a “kangaroo court” and a “nazi court.”
[…]“You have repeatedly made a mockery of these proceedings,” McFadden said, noting Fellows had shown the “height of contempt” for all three branches of government and had “flagrantly lied” on the stand at trial. McFadden also pushed back against Fellows’ belief that he was the victim of a “grand conspiracy” against him.
“It is, rather, your defiance of any and every attempt to try to get your actions to conform to what the law requires that has gotten you to this point,” McFadden said, adding in exasperation a short time later, “It’s time for you to grow up!”
Cashill then tried to help Fellows and other rioters deflect responsibility for their behavior by letting him blame it on someone else:
As to what “somebody like that” was doing at the Fauci hearings, the government’s abuse of individual freedom during the COVID reign of terror helped radicalize Fellows.
“COVID lockdowns in N.Y. told me I wasn’t supposed to work,” said Fellows in his pre-sentencing memo. “All the while not giving me any money, they instead threatened fines on people who worked.”
Fellows was not alone in his outrage. In researching my new book, “Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6,” I was surprised to find just how direct a role COVID oppression played in inspiring people to go to Washington.
Of the 10 women I profile in the book, nine were outspoken COVID dissidents. Ashli Babbitt, the woman shot and killed on January 6, had a perfectly apt name for COVID, the “controla virus.”
“We are being hoodwinked. The sheep need to wake up,” Ashli posted on social media. A sign on the door of her and her husband Aaron’s pool supply business captured the take of most J6 protesters.
Cashill then found another criminal rioter to whitewash:
In a foreshadowing of what would happen after January 6, the heavily indoctrinated Americans felt empowered to monitor and report on their fellow citizens.
“Random people became citizen cops preventing you from living your life doing ordinary things,” said Dr. Simone Gold, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. “I was watching Nazism unfold.”
In May 2020, Dr. Gold recruited some six hundred physicians to sign an open letter to Trump protesting the lockdowns. She showed up at the Capitol on January 6 as a respected physician/attorney and founder of America’s Frontline Doctors, but she, too, left as a “domestic terrorist.”
“One important lesson I’ve learned over the last few years,” said the undaunted Dr. Gold in January 2024: “When they try to discredit you by labeling you a conspiracy theorist, it’s probably because they’re hiding a conspiracy.”
Gold is lying, but Cashill won’t tell you that. She is a notorious anti-vaxxer and a grifter who has been sued by America’s Frontline Doctors for stealing millions from the organization to fund her personal lifestyle. In being sentenced to two months in prison for her behavior that day — which included illegally entering the Capitol, giving speeches encouraging the rioters and being part of a mob that was trying to break into the House chamber, then later ignored police commands to leave Statuary Hall so she could finish giving a speech — the judge criticized Gold’s organization for misleading supporters into believing her prosecution was politically motivated and trampled on her free speech rights, calling it “unseemly” that America’s Frontline Doctors has invoked the Capitol riot in raising money, including for her salary.
In other words, Gold has turned her participation in the riot into a money-making grift — but Cashill won’t tell you that either since he’s trying to perform his own grift from the riot. He concluded by once again trying to blame Fauci for the riot:
At the House committee hearings this week, Dr. Fauci listened contemptuously as one Congress member after another rattled off the disastrous consequences of the COVID policies he set and the desperate efforts he has made to cover his sins.
Yet for the major media, the takeaway message was that a J6er made faces while Fauci spoke.
Just like Cashill to deny that criminals have any culpability for their crimes.